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... better for having them turned into verse . Besides , it is not clear that the unrhymed Alexandrine is a better tragic metre than the rhymed . Voltaire says that usage has now established the metre in France , and that the dramatic poet ...
... better for having them turned into verse . Besides , it is not clear that the unrhymed Alexandrine is a better tragic metre than the rhymed . Voltaire says that usage has now established the metre in France , and that the dramatic poet ...
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... better a poet than other balladists , because he is Homer . But take the whole range 5 of Greek epic poetry , -take ... better times , nor epic poetry as again restored by Nonnus : but even in Quintus of Smyrna , I say , the ...
... better a poet than other balladists , because he is Homer . But take the whole range 5 of Greek epic poetry , -take ... better times , nor epic poetry as again restored by Nonnus : but even in Quintus of Smyrna , I say , the ...
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... better poet than the balladists , because he has taken in the hexameter a better instrument ; he 10 took this instrument because he was a different poet from them ; so different , not only so much better , but so essen- tially ...
... better poet than the balladists , because he has taken in the hexameter a better instrument ; he 10 took this instrument because he was a different poet from them ; so different , not only so much better , but so essen- tially ...
Contents
Preface to First Edition of Poems 1853 | 1 |
Preface to Second Edition of Poems 1854 | 16 |
England and the Italian Question | 65 |
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